The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
JAMES BALDWINThe victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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